Friday, 18 May 2012

V: THE DRINKING GAME

DRINK FOR VICTORY!

The aliens are back! The Red Dust doesn't work (scientists! Bah... you just can't trust them!). What to do? Sit down... switch on the TV... and have a drink (or other suitable consumable... Turkey Twizzlers are not recommended).

V: THE SERIES* might not be very good (shame on Slow-Robot!) but it is jolly good fun. And what could be more fun than V: THE DRINKING GAME? Nothing we can think of.

- Someone makes a racist anti-lizard comment aimed at Willie.- A bit of well-oiled alien beefcake appears for no obvious reason. - OMG! It's Sybil Danning!- You spot a credit for "science fiction advisor". - You find yourself thinking "the DC comics were better".- Any one (including the lizard baby) from the mini-series returns for the weekly series (not counting series regulars... put the drink down...).- Julie has an inexplicable injury... or just nothing to do.- Science Frontiers security guards are ineffectual. - Mr Chang does some scheming.

-You think you can see Julie's snatch during
the conversion chamber sequence. It's only shadow!

3
Drinks

-Members of the Resistance manage to sneak onto
the Mothership with no-one noticing!

-The writers seem to forget just how large the
Mothership is.

-The Visitor language is spoken.

-The Leader appears.

-Some amazingly cheap new piece of Visitor
technology appears (IE a bog-standard lightning globe or a PC keyboard with the
Visitor alphabet stuck on) for the first time.

-Visitor troops shout 'stop or we'll fire',
wait until the last possible moment, open fire and miss by a mile!

-The Resistance actualy use one of the Visitor
weapons or Skyfighters that they capture on a regular basis and then somehow
loose or forget they own.

-Any member of the cast appears topless.

-Another part of the United States is mentioned
in any part of the programme other than the Freedom Network segments. Drink again if thigs are described as
“tough”, “bad” etc. Take an extra drink if it is somewhere outside the United
States.

-The whole mask thing becomes a plot point.
Take an extra drink if it is stupid or improbable.

-A regular character dies or leaves the series.
Take an extra drink if you know they will be back in a later episode.

-A new example of Visitor tradition or culture
appears. Take extra drinks if it seems unlikely or improbable.

SLOW ROBOT

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